SINCE 1828
monkey pot
nounDefinition of monkey pot
1a
: a large woody urn-shaped operculate fruit characteristic of the sapucaias and various closely related trees (as the manbarklaks)
2
: a pot used in glassmaking
specifically
: any of several round-topped oval cylinders enclosed in firebrick arches at the base of a chimney and used as melting pots in making of flint glass
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